WQNY

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WQNY
WQNY logo.jpg
Broadcast area Ithaca, New York
Frequency 103.7 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingQ Country 103.7
Programming
Format Country
Subchannels HD2: WFIZ simulcast (Top 40 (CHR))
HD3: Alternative rock "Alt 95.9"
Affiliations Premiere Networks
Westwood One
Ownership
Owner
  • Saga Communications
  • (Saga Communications of New England, LLC)
WNYY, WHCU, WFIZ, WIII, WYXL
History
First air date
June 6, 1948 (as WVFC
Former call signs
WVFC (1948–1953)
WRRA (1953–1960)
WEIV (1960–1982)
Call sign meaning
Q Country New York
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 32390
Class B
ERP 16,500 watts
HAAT 263 meters
Transmitter coordinates
 42°23′13″N76°40′10″W / 42.38694°N 76.66944°W / 42.38694; -76.66944
Translator(s) HD3: 95.9 W240CB (Ithaca)
103.3 W277BS (Ithaca)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website 1037qcountry.com
alt959.com (HD3)

WQNY (103.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Ithaca, New York, United States, the station serves that market and occasionally has appeared in the Elmira-Corning ratings, as the station can be heard well in the eastern and northeastern parts of that market. The station is owned Saga Communications, and operates as part of its Cayuga Radio Group. [2]

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History

WQNY was the flagship station of the Rural Radio Network (having replaced the station now known as WYXL) and signed on June 6, 1948, as WVFC. WVFC (later WRRA and then WEIV) served as flagship of the network from 1948 to 1981, when the network split up. On December 21, 1982, the station changed its call sign to the current WQNY. [3]

Q-Country 103.7 is currently formatted as a country station, with local personalities either live or voicetracking from 6 am to 7 pm weekdays and most of the weekend daytime hours also. Prior to Saga ownership, WQNY was once an AOR and Adult Contemporary (in the late 1980s) type station known as Q104 or Q104FM "Ithaca's Continuous Music Station" also "The best of the 60's, 70's and Today" as of 1986.

In March 2010, WQNY began carrying its AM sister stations on its HD subchannels. WNYY now occupies the 103.7-HD2 channel, while WHCU occupies 103.7-HD3. The HD carriage enables the AM stations to overcome smaller, directional patterns used during nighttime hours.

In August 2010, translator W240CB 95.9 FM signed on the air and was assigned to relay WQNY. Saga uses the translator to relay the WQNY HD3 feed, WHCU.

On August 30, 2018, WQNY-HD3 dropped its simulcast with WHCU and began stunting with a loop of songs by Ithaca-based X Ambassadors. [4] The station revealed its permanent format, alternative rock, on September 4, 2018. [5]

WQNY is the most popular station in the Ithaca market, according to Arbitron ratings,[ citation needed ] and is thus the most commercially successful of the former Rural Radio Network stations.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WQNY". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WQNY Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "WQNY Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. ↑ "WHCU Moves As Saga Stunts With X Ambassadors In Ithaca". RadioInsight. August 30, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Alt 95.9 Launches In Ithaca - RadioInsight". RadioInsight. September 4, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
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